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Transportation of Payload Using Multiple Quadrotors via Rigid Connection

open access: yesInternational Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2022
Due to the limited payload capability of an aerial robot, multiple quadrotors can be used to manipulate payloads in aerial transportation, construction, and assembly tasks.
Ti Chen, Jinjun Shan, Hugh H. T. Liu
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Distributed Collision-Free Motion Coordination on a Sphere: A Conic Control Barrier Function Approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This letter studies a distributed collision avoidance control problem for a group of rigid bodies on a sphere. A rigid body network, consisting of multiple rigid bodies constrained to a spherical surface and an interconnection topology, is first ...
Ames, Aaron D.   +3 more
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Modeling the kinematics and Dynamics of Compliant Contact [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
In this paper, we discuss the modeling of the kinematics and dynamics of compliant contact between bodies moving in Euclidean space. First, we derive the kinematic equations describing the motion of the contact point when two rigid bodies are rolling on ...
Duindam, Vincent, Stramigioli, Stefano
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Ultra-fast escape maneuver of an octopus-inspired robot [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
We design and test an octopus-inspired flexible hull robot that demonstrates outstanding fast-starting performance. The robot is hyper-inflated with water, and then rapidly deflates to expel the fluid so as to power the escape maneuver.
Subramaniam, V.   +2 more
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A spatial impedance controller for robotic manipulation [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
Mechanical impedance is the dynamic generalization of stiffness, and determines interactive behavior by definition. Although the argument for explicitly controlling impedance is strong, impedance control has had only a modest impact on robotic ...
Broenink, Jan F., Fasse, Ernest D.
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On Centroidal Dynamics and Integrability of Average Angular Velocity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In the literature on robotics and multibody dynamics, the concept of average angular velocity has received considerable attention in recent years. We address the question of whether the average angular velocity defines an orientation framethat depends ...
Nijmeijer, Henk   +3 more
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Dynamic whole-body motion generation under rigid contacts and other unilateral constraints [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The most widely used technique for generating wholebody motions on a humanoid robot accounting for various tasks and constraints is inverse kinematics. Based on the task-function approach, this class of methods enables the coordination of robot movements
Et Al. Dy   +12 more
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Modeling and Control of 2D Grasping under Rolling Contact Constraints between Arbitrary Shapes: A Riemannian-Geometry Approach

open access: yesJournal of Robotics, 2010
Modeling, control, and stabilization of dynamics of two-dimensional object grasping by using a pair of multijoint robot fingers are investigated under rolling contact constraints and arbitrariness of the geometry of the object and fingertips.
Suguru Arimoto, Morio Yoshida
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Quasi optimal sagittal gait of a biped robot with a new structure of knee joint [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The design of humanoid robots has been a tricky challenge for several years. Due to the kinematic complexity of human joints, their movements are notoriously difficult to be reproduced by a mechanism. The human knees allow movements including rolling and
ABBA, Gabriel   +2 more
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Quantifying the Evolutionary Self Structuring of Embodied Cognitive Networks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
We outline a possible theoretical framework for the quantitative modeling of networked embodied cognitive systems. We notice that: 1) information self structuring through sensory-motor coordination does not deterministically occur in Rn vector space, a ...
Bonsignorio, Fabio
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